Festival News: The Winners of Sundance 2014
A record audience welcomes the winners of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.
Every year the film industry descends on Park City, Utah for the Sundance Film Festival. The festival, which began in 1978, has become one of the worlds most prestigious and talked about film events…and this year was no exception.
With a record number of submissions, 2014 was a great year for Sundance. Fierce weather and even fiercer competition was on display all across the beehive state (I kid you not…Utah is really called The Beehive State!) The winners were crowned, gaining film immortality and most importantly, they can put those festival laurels on their DVD cover!
Here are the winners of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival:
| U. S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic | Whiplash |
| U. S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary | Rich Hill |
| World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic | To Kill a Man |
| World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary | Return to Homs |
| Audience Award: U. S. Dramatic | Whiplash |
| Audience Award: U.S. Documentary | Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory |
| Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic | Difret |
| Audience Award: World Cinema: Documentary | The Green Prince |
| Audience Award: Best of NEXT | Imperial Dreams |
| Directing Award: U. S. Dramatic | Fishing Without Nets / Cutter Hodierne |
| Directing Award: U. S. Documentary | The Case Against 8 / Ben Cotner & Ryan White |
| Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic | 52 Tuesdays / Sophie Hyde |
| Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary | 20,000 Days on Earth / Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard |
| Cinematography Award: U. S. Dramatic | Low Down / Christopher Blauvelt |
| Cinematography Award: U. S. Documentary | E-TEAM / Ross Kauffman & Rachel Beth Anderson |
| Cinematography Award: World Cinema Dramatic | Lilting / Ula Pontikos |
| Cinematography Award: World Cinema Documentary | Happiness / Thomas Balmès & Nina Bernfeld |
| U. S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent | Dear White People / Justin Simien |
| U. S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Musical Score | Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter / The Octopus Project |
| U. S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Intuitive Filmmaking | The Overnighters |
| U. S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Use of Animation | Watchers of the Sky |
| World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Performance | God Help the Girl |
| World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematic Bravery | We Come as Friends |
| Editing Award: U. S. Documentary | Watchers of the Sky |
| Editing Award: World Cinema Documentary | 20,000 Days on Earth |
| Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. Dramatic | The Skeleton Twins / Craig Johnson & Mark Heyman |
| Screenwriting Award: World Cinema Dramatic | Blind / Eskil Vogt |
| Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize | I Origins |
| Short Film Grand Jury Prize | Of God and Dogs |
| Short Film Jury Award: US Fiction | Gregory Go Boom |
| Short Film Jury Award: International Fiction | The Cut |
| Short Film Jury Award: Nonfiction | I Think This is the Closest to How the Footage Looked |
| Short Film Jury Award: Animation | Yearbook |
| Short Film Special Jury Award for Unique Vision | Rat Pack Rat |
| Short Film Special Jury Award for Nonfiction | Love. Love. Love. |
| Short Film Special Jury Award for Direction and Ensemble Acting | Burger |
| Short Film Audience Award | Chapel Perilous |
For more info on Sundance including how to submit your film to be screened in 2015 check out the Sundance website.
Let the countdown begin until next year:
What was your favorite film of Sundance 2014? Should someone else have been in the list of winners? Share your thoughts in the Comments below!
